Our teams at Blizzard Entertainment have worked long and hard on creating cinematic experiences that complement the story, characters, and world of Overwatch. The series of animated shorts (shown below) have been a key pillar to this endeavor. If you haven’t seen any of them, check out the playlist from the official Overwatch YouTube channel here.
What is your favorite Overwatch animated short?
Overwatch Animated Short | “Shooting Star”
Overwatch Animated Short | “Honor and Glory”
Overwatch Animated Short | “Rise and Shine”
Overwatch Animated Short | “Infiltration”
Overwatch Animated Short | “The Last Bastion”
Overwatch Animated Short | “Hero”
Overwatch Animated Short | “Dragons”
Overwatch Animated Short | “Alive”
Overwatch Animated Short | “Recall”
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The emotion carried in all of these shorts was strong and conveyed well. My favourite 2 would be “Alive” and “Honor and Glory,” but the rest are of equal quality.
You can notice a different style throughout the 3 years, but they are all done well.
Honor and Glory for the music, badass orisa, and slow-motion finale, or Alive for the epic plot twist and the actual gameplay footage of me on tracer hitting nothing
Best OST, good character representation and the perfect amount of action and suspense. Thanks to this, i fell in love with WidowMaker, she is not a “sexy woman in purple spandex”, she is the best assassin of Talon.
“Alive” was the first short to set the stage for the lore of Overwatch, by presenting a scenario through the eyes of the antagonist. It really made you feel when Mondatta died, and to this day Tracer still blames herself for something that she could never predict happen, no matter how many times she Recalls.
It’s honor and glory for me, although the last bastion is a very close second.
And for reasons, honor and glory had the best story along character development, and the last bastion is the most beautifully animated one along with being well done even though nobody actually taked throughout it.
So one for story/development and one for animation/art direction.
Actually a even bigger question is why isn’t this one in there.
I believe the reason that junkertown: the plan wasn’t in there was because they just made it with the in game engine and it technically wasn’t a animated short in comparison to the others because of that, it was pretty enjoyable though.
Honor and Glory is my favourite.
I like a lot of them but H&G has a lot of character development, it tells us not only why Rein operates as a Tank but also what happened to the map Eichenwalde.
Also in the shorts such as Rise and Shine and Shooting star - There is nothing at stake really, snowball got turned off for a little bit and dva got a bit injured but they sort of started the short with the same attitude they ended with.
Rein has paid the price for his arrogance and has now changed how he acts directly due to the events of the short the omnic crisis leaves a mark on his soul and he works tirelessly to cleanse it.
